Barack Obama in South Africa

Apartheid history

Tribune photo by Pete Souza

Sen. Barack Obama views a 1976 photograph of the fatally wounded Hector Pieterson at the museum in Soweto, South Africa named for the 13-year old victim of apartheid violence. Antoinette Pieterson, Hector's sister, accompanies Obama.

Sen. Barack Obama views a 1976 photograph of the fatally wounded Hector Pieterson at the museum in Soweto, South Africa named for the 13-year old victim of apartheid violence. Antoinette Pieterson, Hector's sister, accompanies Obama. (Tribune photo by Pete Souza)

With pictures from the anti-apartheid struggle as a backdrop, Sen. Barack Obama views an exhibit at the Hector Pieterson Museum in the Soweto township near Johannesburg. The museum is devoted to South Africa's freedom movement.

With pictures from the anti-apartheid struggle as a backdrop, Sen. Barack Obama views an exhibit at the Hector Pieterson Museum in the Soweto township near Johannesburg. The museum is devoted to South Africa's freedom movement. (Tribune photo by Pete Souza)